circle.ch :: Crosspost

circle.ch weblog by Urs Gehrig

A weblog about libre software, law, technology, politics and the like.

2010-08-25T08:13:16

Academic, Android, Apache, Apple, Art, Best Of, Biotech, Civil Society, Content Management, Cooking, Copyright, Creative Commons, Crosspost, Culture, Database, Deutsch, DRM, Economy, Education, Event, Gadget, General, Geodata, Government, Health, Howto, Humor, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Java, Language, LaTeX, Law, Linux, Media, Moblog, Mozilla, Music, Office, Open Content, Open Source, P2P, PHP, Podcast, Politics, Privacy, Projects, Random Thought, Rant, Science, Search, Social Network, Software, Sport, Talks, Technology, Technology Transfer, Travelling, Weblog, Wiki, Wireless and Mobile, XML

17. March 2004

SharedID and talkr.net ideas
Weblog (wiki) | Crosspost (wiki) | Social Network (wiki) - urs @ 17:40:07

Both, on SharedID [1] and talkr.net [2] have been quite some discussion over potential comment identification resp. authentication systems. The other day I reawakended my crosspost idea based on trust levels with FOAF [3]. SharedID has an interesting demo online, where "a service magically" retrieves your FOAF file to a give email address and finally completes a comment form with the appropriate user data [4].

What I would like here is a common service API to make that service compatible. Oh, no, I haven't forgotten about George [5] Orwell ;-)

[1] http://sharedid.com/sharedid/developers/
[2] http://erikbenson.com/entries/2004/02/23/talkrnet_proposal.html
[3] http://www.circle.ch/blog/p1362.html
[4] http://api.sharedid.com/api/default.asp?action=go
[5] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451524934

08. March 2004

FOAF - Trust and Reputation
XML (wiki) | Crosspost (wiki) | Social Network (wiki) | Random Thought (wiki) - urs @ 01:03:22

Today I found the Trust and Reputation project homepage for FOAF [1]. You can now upload your FOAF file and rate the people you know resp. the ones you have listed in your file. There is a perl script to convert your addressbook to a textfile for an easier conversion to add to the FOAF file [1]. Give it a go and build your own Orkut; at least I could imagine some nice applications. I just had a random thought about a single sign-on management for online services. According to the trust given, my friends could be able or not to post to a certain blog, a calendar, a newsletter or what so ever... Just a thought to reawaken my crosspost idea ;)

[1] http://trust.mindswap.org/trustProject.shtml
[2] http://trust.mindswap.org/abScript.shtml

18. July 2003

Parsing for trusted FOAFs
Crosspost (wiki) | Social Network (wiki) - urs @ 13:10:41

Having set up a new category "Crosspost", I will - after having come back from the Gurten Festival [1] - try to implement a parser to let chregu [2] crosspost to my blog.

[1] http://www.gurtenfestival.ch
[2] http://xml.mfd-consult.dk/foaf/explorer/?foaf=http://circle.ch/blog/foaf.rdf